Advanced Practice Nurse - Hospital At Home

Job Description
Job Description Title: Nurse Manager – LTAC
Position Summary:
The Nurse Manager is responsible for day-to-day coordination of nursing care and services on his/her designated shift including but not limited to staffing and scheduling, monitoring quality of care, collection of quality data, staff development, performance management and budget compliance.
Qualifications:
· Required:
o Current RN license in Michigan
o One to three years clinical experience in an LTAC, ICU or stepdown unit with ventilator patients
· Preferred:
o Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
o One year of leadership experience as a charge nurse or supervisor
Responsibilities:

• Assures that care is provided consistent with standards of care, manages the environment to maintain patient safety, and supervises the patient care provided by nursing personnel.
• Maintains staff accountability for clinical and customer service standards at all times. Addresses non-compliance with policy, procedure, and standards of practice and behavior with staff in a respectful and professional manner when non-compliance is observed.

Coordinates care on designated shift including creating patient assignments, facilitating admissions, and assuring adequate staff for patient acuity.
Develops staff schedule in accordance with projected patient census and acuity mix.

• Assure adequate staffing; determine staffing levels needed for census. Makes real-time adjustments to staffing to address absences or census acuity fluctuations.
• Participates in selection and onboarding of staff to support target staffing levels.

Orients new nursing staff to the facility, completes required documentation for the employee file.
Provides ongoing educational offerings for facility staff based on high risk/high volume/problem-prone processes, quality initiatives, new services.
Shared responsibility for employee engagement recruitment and retention.
Identifies and addresses issues and conflicts that impact patient care processes, affect customer satisfaction, or have ethical/legal ramifications. Brings issues to the attention of the CNO for definitive resolution.
Mentors care team members in the areas of conflict resolution, problem- solving, and customer relations.
Attends wound care rounds, assures that wound assessments are documented consistently, and that the plan of care for wound management is implemented.
· Supports the QAPI Process, including completing data collection, coaching staff, supporting action plans, report preparation and data submission.
Promotes hospital standards of care, policies and procedures.
Ensures all regulatory requirements are met.
· Ensure the facility is well stocked with supplies, including medications and equipment.
~ Provides direct nursing care to patients with critical and complex medical and surgical conditions (24-36 hours weekly). Time allocated for administrative duties on a regular and scheduled basis.

· Other duties as assigned.